A reader fears that her parents’ decades-long food fixation could jeopardize her efforts to keep her own eating disorder under control.When I was 10, my parents started dieting — and they never stopped! (I am now 38, and they are 68.) They equate thinness with good health. When ...

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“Can you please spell Gabbana?” Andy Sachs, the character played by Anne Hathaway, asks in the early moments of “The Devil Wears Prada.”Twenty years later, she seems to have gotten it down.The movie, released in 2006, starred Ms. Hathaway as the blunder-prone assistant to Miranda Priestly, a fashion ...

What to know about this year’s celebration, including the return of a superstar last seen on the Met carpet 10 years ago.The first Monday in May — a.k.a. the date of the Met Gala, a.k.a. the party of the year, a.k.a. the Oscars of the East Coast — ...

Love Hunter has been drawn to timepieces since he was a child. Now, after years of selling and repairing them, it’s time for his own creations to take center stage.About five years ago, when the watchmaker Love Hunter started working full-time on building his own brand, he knew ...

A look at the new skeleton watch models unveiled by Hermès, Piaget and Panerai.Skeleton watches seemed to take center stage at this year’s Watches and Wonders, with no fewer than three brands unveiling new models, along with a few twists and turns. These new models aren’t just about ...

For these wearers of rugged timepieces, form follows function.Tool watches, the industry term for durable timepieces used for specific purposes, such as diving, excite collectors and enthusiasts with their sophisticated functions and built-in instruments.But what do people who rely on these watches in their everyday lives wear on ...

Online start-ups aim to clarify pricing and authenticity for pre-owned and vintage watches.Quaid Walker, chief executive of Bezel, an online marketplace for pre-owned luxury watches, was in a celebratory mood. “We announced a billion dollars in listings today,” he said on a video call last month from Los ...

Jay Liu shares some of his favorite spots in Tokyo, along with his reasons for collecting vintage timepieces.At Grill Bon in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Jay Liu, a watch collector, and I sat side by side at the counter, watching the staff as they assembled the restaurant’s signature deep-fried ...

The fashion house has expanded its signature line, the J12, which is now offered in three colors and new sizes.Pendant watches shaped like lipstick, an oversized bejeweled watch recalling a haute couturier’s pincushion and watch dials etched with images of the fashion designer Coco Chanel — watchmaking at ...

The brand has undergone a two-year rebuilding after it was acquired by Breitling in 2023.Universal Genève made a long-anticipated return this month. The Swiss watch company was founded in 1884, but fell on hard times during the quartz crisis of the 1970s — a fallow period for watchmakers ...

The house has translated its paillonné enamel bangle, once favored by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, into a limited-edition timepiece.Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis built her recognizable style on a simple formula: impeccably tailored dresses, a color palette confined to two tones and jewelry deployed with parsimony — a row of pearls, ...

For the ultimate in high-level luxury, buyers are commissioning timepieces that are special enough to be passed down through generations.It’s not unusual to see Patek Philippe watches at auction, but two examples in the Sotheby’s Important Watches sale in New York last December stood apart.The watch dials had ...

Last Friday afternoon, as temperatures climbed into the 80s in the dusty California desert, fans rushed to claim a spot in front of a Coachella stage.But the crowd wasn’t camping out for that night’s headliner, Sabrina Carpenter, or for the buzzy girl group Katseye. Attendees were patiently waiting ...

In an interview with the local news outfit Hell Gate, the New York mayor framed his decision to avoid the glamorous fund-raiser as a way to keep his focus on affordability.As an unapologetic democratic socialist, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not afraid to defy the traditional political calculations. And ...